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Goodbye

A silent scream,
Seeking attention all the time.
Sometimes a voice too loud,
Begging to be heard.
Never gets tired of hearing its own chatter.
Will “I” ever be able to quieten?
Will “I” be ever still?

Somewhere deep within, the “I” knows,
This life is a just play of five elements,
And the maker of the universe looks for ecstatic performers irrespective of the role.
Still “I” wants to be in someone else’s role,
I do everything in pursuit of joy.
But the “I” is not joyful each moment.
Sometimes unaware and unconscious,
Bitter and twisting,
Repeats the same karmic cycles,
Like a spider entangled in its own web.

Mona Lisa is an IT Consultant by day and a poet by night. A bilingual poet, she finds her expressions both in English and Odia. Storymirror has honored her as “Literary Colonel” for promoting literature. Her literary works are featured in prestigious international journals like “The Year of the Poet VI” by Inner Child Press International (USA), Galaktika Poetike “ATUNIS”, "Different truths” and “Muse India”. Her Odia poetry book “Anjulae Smruti (A handful of memory)" has received many beautiful reviews from contemporary poets and huge appreciation from the readers. Mona Lisa loves travelling. As ardent lover of nature and mountains, she feels mountains always call her. Her goal is to befriend the Himalayan mountain ranges and talk to the moon some day.

AUTHOR OF THE MONTH

Steve Carr, from Richmond, Virginia, has had over 400 short stories published internationally in print and online magazines, literary journals, reviews and anthologies since June, 2016. He has had six collections of his short stories, Sand, Rain, Heat, The Tales of Talker Knock and 50 Short Stories: The Very Best of Steve Carr, and LGBTQ: 33 Stories, and The Theory of Existence: 50 Short Stories, published. His paranormal/horror novel Redbird was released in November, 2019. His plays have been produced in several states in the U.S. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize twice.